Sentences with phrase «rejection letters from»

According to Debenham, the unwillingness of the Forest Service to fairly consider tribal and non-tribal energy projects alike is evidenced by 20 rejection letters from the Forest Service received over the last eight years in four states.

Celebrating 20 years of working in the video games industry, Double Fine CEO and LucasArts vet Tim Schafer posted several documents from his time with the sector, including rejection letters from Atari and Hewlett - Packard (he hoped to follow in the footsteps of novelist Kurt Vonnegut Jr., who toiled away at General Electric during the day, and wrote short stories at night).

I decided to publish with Infinity because I got tired of getting rejection letters from traditional publishing houses.

BEST FOR YOU IF: You could wallpaper your office in rejection letters from traditional publishing houses.

I wrote a book in 2004, collected a bunch of rejection letters from agents to prove that I was a real author, then dropped it in a box in the garage for ten years.

Yes, get ready to paper your house with form rejection letters from people that didn't read a word of your manuscript, don't want to and perhaps didn't even finish reading your query.

However, after repeated rejection letters from trade presses, «I made a decision that I just wanted to see this done.»

Battered by rejection letters from well - known publishers (often because the book is not ready for publication), the author may abandon mainstream or small press publishing to respond to a magazine advertisement or an enticing email that promises editing help, distribution, even submissions to film producers.

A number of accomplished authors who get published the traditional way have had to endure hundreds of rejection letters from literary agents before they succeed.

Imagine if those cryptic rejection letters from literary agents came with a decoder wheel — something that left you a bit more information, some guidance as to what you're doing wrong, or almost right?

Since I've started trying to get a novel published I've gotten a decent amount of rejection letters from literary agents.

«It's really simple: without Amazon, and more specifically KDP Select, I would still be receiving rejection letters from agents and publishers.

Thankfully the e-publishing bubble hadn't hit yet, so rejection letters from agents started piling up.

Years back, a man and his wife came into the RJ Communications» offices with a stack of pictures and a pile of copy and a fist full of rejection letters from traditional publishers.

This could be several hundred dollars (or more), and they'd have no proof that the bad literary agents did anything on their behalf, even though the literary agencies will say that they submitted everyone's work to lots of publishers (good luck getting copies of the rejection letters from editors that the bad literary agents supposedly submitted your work to).

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I didn't want to waste a year with rejection letters from companies that don't even open the manuscript.

I collected rejection letters from agents and publishers.

The YAHA is always on the lookout for books, they have small lists but are building them so you won't get «sorry, I'm not taking on clients at the moment» rejection letters from them.

And overflow candidates might get rejection letters from Dellarte that refer them to one of Author Solutions» other vanity presses!

As you can see, rejection letters from literary agents are nothing to be afraid of.

No matter how many rejection letters from literary agents I get I'm just going to keep writing and trying to get better.

Submitting your manuscript too early is the primary reason for rejection letters from publishers.

I have never been happier to thumb through a two - inch stack of rejection letters from agents and publishers.

But then it goes on to reference the real - life difficulty of getting the movie made, the «42 rejection letters from Fox» and the «one leaked video» that jump - started the character's fanbase and helped rescue the movie from development hell.

But she has aspirations, as attested by a pile of rejection letters from the fiction departments of publications like The Paris Review.

Justin Long (The Break - Up, Herbie Fully Loaded) plays Bartleby, a high school dork that grows increasingly frustrated by getting rejection letters from every college he applies to.

Despite dutifully following the suggestions delineated in Writer's Market, widely accepted as the bible of struggling authors, all I have to show for my efforts to date is a big pile of rejection letters from publishers and agents.

Rebel will look at Salinger's youth, his time spent in conflict during World War II, finding love, enduring loss and years of rejection letters from The New Yorker, which fuelled chronic writer's block but also helped him find his voice.

I have an impressive collection of rejection letters from funding agencies, both federal and private.

All writers know it's difficult to get form rejection letters from magazines and journals, but take comfort: if you ever make it, you can send form rejection letters back à la Edmund Wilson:....

To inspire fellow authors, Rowling shared a number of «Robert Galbraith's» rejection letters from editors.

I had a rejection letter from a huge foundation that said, «We're having a hard trouble understanding why you think these sustainable «adventures» [sic] would help you with poverty alleviation.»

Last week I received a rejection letter from a company I was really excited about working for and my mind really struggled to stay positive.

Then you hear a girl's voice in the background reading a rejection letter from a ballet school:

Every rejection letter from a literary agent is a failure.

A few weeks after Thanksgiving, you get a rejection letter from the first agent.

So if you get a rejection letter from one particular agent at an agency, it doesn't necessarily mean that another agent at the same agency wouldn't be interested.

Unless otherwise mentioned, once you receive a rejection letter from an agent at an agency, you're free to go right back to that same agency with a query to a different agent (if you think it's worth it).

I spent many a sleepless night considering my decision to self - publish after getting a form rejection letter from one of the Big Five (one of the couple who would actually look a non-agented submissions).

Banks must play fair on how they handle your complaint so if you get a rejection letter from a mis - sold PPI application that also contains a Plevin payment offer as well, STOP!

Well, at least I have a rejection letter from KPLA...

Talking to Steve on the 18th, he said, «hey, I have a FOIA rejection letter from the 13th»

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From deep within the Walt Disney archives, Settle It Now (via the wonderful Letters of Note blog) has discovered this rejection letter from 1938 that tells an Arkansas woman not to bother applying for any of the creative work done on Disney cartoons as that work «is performed entirely by young men.»

Have you ever had a really awful rejection letter from a publisher?

As a job applicant, it may already be heartbreaking to receive a rejection letter from a company that you hoped you could work for, but it's better than hearing nothing at all from a prospective employer.

Getting a rejection letter from a top college, dumped by the love of our life, or excluded from lunch with friends can make us feel pretty crummy.

I received my rejection letter from BoA yesterday.